Re: ATI latest driver

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 10:59 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Jon Nettleton wrote :
> 
> > On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:33 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > Any chance the new (7.11?) driver will be packaged up anytime soon for
> > > F8?  Or is there another place to get this now while rpmfusion is being
> > > worked on?
> > 
> > They have changed a bit with this driver.  I started hacking up a
> > modified dkms driver for it.  I will try and finish that tonight and
> > post a link to the list.
> 
> Would be much appreciated, as I can't easily test an updated driver
> myself at the moment, thus I didn't do anything yet... apart from a
> first quick look. I still don't understand how they decided to release
> a new driver with an older version, though :-/

I will warn that I had to modify find-debuginfo.sh to disable strict
build-id checking.  ATI hasn't linked their apps with the proper flags
to generate build ID's and the rpmbuild command dies on F8 without the
change.

Jon